Smooth jazz

 "Tradition is what you call the solution to a problem, long after you've forgotten what the problem was.  Take away the tradition, and the problem returns." - Donald Kingsbury

Been Away, apologies!

 "Conquer yourself, rather than the world." - Rene Descartes

Contusion

 "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

Brick

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato

Back to routine. Concerts.

 "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Economics revisited

 "Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give.  A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others." - Marcus Aurelius

Good commuting music yet again

 "When you were in the military, did you ever kill anyone?" 

"Well, I was a cook, so yeah, probably."

A bit of everything

 "The wisest are most annoyed at the loss of time." - Dante Alighieri

The Beatles, then and now

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.

That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

North Idaho Fair - 2022 Centennial

 "I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own.

For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day.

Thus do we fear more what our neighbors will think of us, than what we ourselves." - Marcus Aurelius

Tonsils and Three Albums

 "As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.'  But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself?  He ever follows himself as his own most burdensome companion.  And so we ought to understand that which we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rock Concert!

 "We ought to do good to others simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season, without thinking of the grapes it has borne." - Marcus Aurelius

Early Instrumental Rock Music

 "Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way.  Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretense." - Marcus Aurelius

Live Concerts

 "Do not get too attached to life, for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore, and at any time the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness." - Epictetus

Another good day for music!

 "A man's greatness lies not in wealth and station, as the vulgar believe.  Nor does it lie in his intellectual capacity, which is often associated with the worst moral character - the most abject servility to those in high places and arrogance to the poor and lowly.  But a man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded upon a just estimate of himself and everything else.  On frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right - without troubling himself, as the emperor says he should not, about what others may say , or whether they do or don't do that which he thinks and says and does." - Marcus Aurelius

Three Strikes

 "Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Just a song

 "We are mad, not only individually but nationally.  We punish manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Some cool African music

 "Frighened of change?  But what can exist without it?  What is closer to nature's heart?  Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was?  Eat food without transforming it?  Can an vital process take place without something being changed? 

"Can't you see?  It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature." - Marcus Aurelius

Road Music Again

 "No man is happy who does not think himself so." - Marcus Aurelius

The Pogues

 "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" - Marcus Aurelius

A very appropriate quote for the times...

A couple of years ago, I requested this album for Christmas and received it.